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SCA: security update for pillow (GHSA-g842-9rc4-69pw)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 476870

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Pillow is a Python imaging library. Prior to 13.0.0, SpiderImageFile.seek() in
 src/PIL/SpiderImagePlugin.py reparses a later SPIDER stack frame and replaces self._size without rerunning
 Image._decompression_bomb_check(). A tiny file can use a safe first frame to pass Image.open() and then
 declare very large dimensions in a later mode F frame. Loading that frame allocates approximately four
 bytes per attacker-declared pixel and can consume multiple gigabytes of memory. This issue is fixed in
 version 13.0.0. (CVE-2026-96637)

Solution

Update the pillow library and its related packages to version 13.0.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g842-9rc4-69pw

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 476870

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/22/2026

Updated: 10/22/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.71

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-96637

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Threat Score: 4.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-96637